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The Cumberland Mine Railroad is a private carrier mine railroad serving the Cumberland Coal Resources mine near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Operations on the mine and associated railroad began in November 1976. The line was originally developed by United States Steel as a source of steam coal for export to Canada. Subsequently, the mine and ...
Josiah White and Erskine Hazard-founding partners of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad Pisgah Mountain and the topography of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad. The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, also known as the Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad and occasionally shortened to Mauch Chunk Railway, was a coal-hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that was built in 1827 and ...
Pages in category "Mining railways in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
R.J. Corman Railroad/Pennsylvania Lines (reporting mark RJCP) is a railroad in the R.J. Corman Railroad Group, operating a number of lines in central Pennsylvania. It primarily carries coal between mines and Norfolk Southern Railway connections at Cresson and Keating . [ 1 ]
In the United States, the standard gauge for mine haulage is 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), although gauges from 18 in (457 mm) to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) are used. [13] [14] Original mine railways used wax-impregnated wooden rails attached to wooden sleepers, on which drams were dragged by men, children or animals. This was later replaced by L-shaped iron ...
The mine, the railroads the LC&N put in and a small shirt factory were the main historic industries in Coaldale. [10] Because of the adverse topology, the LC&N took several decades to survey and drive a railbed with a negotiable grade from Mauch Chunk through Nesquehoning, along the Nesquehoning ridge to Hometown , and then up the Panther Creek ...
Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: Southern Pennsylvania Railway and Mining Company: PRR: 1873 1954 Penndel Company: Southwark Railroad: PRR: 1831 1877 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad: South West Connecting Railway: PRR: 1897 1908 Pennsylvania Railroad: South-West Pennsylvania Railway: PRR: 1871 1906 Pennsylvania ...
From the 1870s through the 1920s, this line (often referred to as the Wayynie) served its namesake towns in Southwestern Pennsylvania. After the 1930s, the line struggled on, mostly on paper. Today, all that remains from the railroad's heyday is one locomotive, a few stations and a few images.